View full sizeJohn B. SchefflerWarren County Department of Corrections

A 33-year-old recently arrested after breaking into -- and sleeping in -- a Mansfield Motel room has been linked to three Warren County burglaries, court records say.

New Jersey State Police this week charged John Scheffler with three counts each of burglary and theft. He also faces two counts of criminal mischief, according to court records.

The charges stem from three break-ins in White and Liberty townships between May 27 and June 20.

The thefts began, records say, at a home on Pequest Road in White Township and continued on June 6 when he stole jewelry and cash from a Castner Road home in the township. The last of the break-ins occurred in Liberty Township when he stole two guitars, an iPad, and jewelry from a Rader Road home, records say.

He took $8,447 worth of belongings in the burglaries, records say.

The filing of the charges comes less than two weeks after Mansfield Township police said he broke into a room at the Mansfield Motel on Route 57, slept in it and caused damage.